webDotWiz talks Windows Live

The Windows Live Essentials programs using the Ribbon menu derived from Office 2007 have similar features to the Office 2007 ribbon. One of these is the use of the ALT key to bring up KeyTips so you can access the menu item of your choice by simply clicking on the appropriate letter.

Here’s the feature shown in Word 2007:

webDotWiz came across this feature just the other day when reading the Crabby Office Lady’s blog Crabby’s Word shortcut: Access keys and KeyTips. Just goes to show how much webDotWiz doesn’t use Word 2007 .

Live Writer

webDotWiz is of course writing up this post in the beta version of the Live Writer 2011 (which he uses lots more than Word ) and here’s what he sees after he presses the ALT key:

Now he presses H on the keyboard to access the Home tab:

Let’s say webDotWiz now wants to insert a picture so he needs to bring up the Picture sub-menu which has E as its access key so a press of E on keyboard shows the following:

In turn, each item on the Picture sub-menu has its own access key to get to the desired choice to insert a picture into Live Writer.

Live Movie Maker

Here’s an example of using the ALT key in Live Movie Maker:

You turn off the keytips by pressing the ALT key again.

If you’re on the Project menu tab, say, press ALT again and you can return to the Home tab by pressing H.

Live Photo Gallery

There are many, many options on Live Photo Gallery’s Ribbon since there are so many things we want to do with our photos.

Here’s what Live Photo Gallery looks like on the first press of the ALT key to give quick access to each tab on the ribbon (e.g. H for the Home tab, E for the Edit tab):

Pressing E on the keyboard, for example, brings up the choices for editing:

Live Mail

The new Live Mail uses the Ribbon menu idea and naturally KeyTips pop up when you press the ALT key to give easy access to each menu item:

To get to what’s shown above, webDotWiz pressed ALT to bring up the keytips on each tab. The View tab is accessed by pressing V on the keyboard to give the keytips for all the items on the View tab.

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Posted using the beta version of Windows Live Writer 2011.